The Daily Grind 949 by Mike Gunderloy Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Two year olds do not require a controller to play Dance Dance Revolution.

• r.a.d.splitter - Telerik has a new control in beta, an ASP.NET splitter. Grab it or learn more here.
• Greenbox Logo Maker - Software specifically for designing company logos. Trial download is here, $29.99 to register. (via Software Marketing Resource Blog)
• L Sharp .NET - "A powerful lisp-based scripting language for .NET." (via DotNetKicks)
• ADO.NET vNext CTP (Community Technology Preview) - August 2006 - Microsoft is out with an early build of the ADO.NET Entity Framework and related stuff. More details on the ADO.NET Team Blog. Alex Barnett has a good pile of links on the subject too.

• Performance Contest #1 Results and Analysis - Greg Young digs into some code that he asked people to optimize. There's good stuff here if perf tweaking interests you.
• Managed Language Tools in Visual Studio 2005 SDK - Microsoft is doing some work in the Visual Studio 2005 SDK to make it even easier to hook new languages into Visual Studio.
• Risk Management and QA for the Lone Wolf - A little something I turned out for Developer.com.
• Microsoft� Visual Studio� .NET� 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Notes - So where's the service pack?

• Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge Winners - VMware has announced the winners of their contest for prepackaged virtual machines.
• Great Mind Software - This outfit handles the logistics of getting software products listed on Amazon.com. Yeah, you could probably do it yourself, but it might be worth sticking to your core business. (via Software Marketing Resource Blog)

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Mike Gunderloy is the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.